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we get around? Yep, and we've gotten around to Friday already. Again
that's a kind of a slap yourself on the face. What it's Friday,
It's August. It's the fourth fla from the way right, So questions and
answers things that are coming and going Friday the fourth And I guess Jay Kirshner
and Doug Stephen and you and the rest of the world are looking at a
lot of things. The well, the high the high stakes court appearance of
Trump, Poodt and on. Okay, So that's something that we can work
our way through as we go through. There will be plenty of time for
that discussion on the Talk to your Review in the talk radio Countdown show that
you can listen to either later today or tomorrow or Sunday. And so let's
talk about the Women's World Cup, which has moved into the single elimination knockout
stage. Handful of surprises. Germany has been eliminated from the Women's World Cup.
And if you see some of those German ladies, they're pretty tough.
Not to expect that the European women are really into this. But there was
a looks like a one to one tie with South Korea. Ja. Yes,
yeah, So the group stage mark like a round robin situation, and
it's not a point system. And by the end of the group stages,
whoever has the most points, and so the round of sixteen kicks off this
weekend. We'll go through Tuesday. And that's like you said, the single
elimination. In the United States, Eastern time, five am is the game.
So the second your alarm clock happening on Sunday if you have to be
up, but the heck, right Sunday you have nothing better to do at
five o'clock in the morning and watch the games, have some fun. Yeah,
yeah, take a nap. Naps are good, very helpful. A
situation in South Korea replicating what's going on way too much around our country and
around the world. An attack near Soul, fourteen people injured. A man
rams a car into a group of pedestrians and then gets out with a knife
and starts stabbing people. Wow, twenty three year old man acting alone.
They describe it as a rampage. Yeah, I guess that's as good a
word as any. Right, Think about all the words. How hard the
news media has to have searched to find new words to describe old stuff like
this. The pendulum swings back and forth and back and forth, and this
is you know, find a middle here somewhere, Jay. Yeah. And
it's definitely one of those things where it's not a it's not just an American
problem. Yes, this seems to happen more so in the US, but
mental health, anger, aggression, all of this. It's it's a worldwide
situation. So there's a lot to be that. We have lots of things
to think about. In a manner of speaking. Tom Brady has purchased a
minority steak in the Birmingham City Team. Michael Jordan sold a majority steak in
the Charlotte Hornets. Those are two things that people are buzzing about. If
you'll pardon the pun, get it horn it's buzzing. Do I have to
explain that? Yeah, it's it's not much good if you have to explain
it. Ten people were struck. Also, when you look at the situation
and soul. There were a couple of incidents, including one in midtown Manhattan
this week. Same thing happened the intersection of Lexington Avenue in East forty second.
That's a busy place and it was afternoon drive. There was the police
who are trying to perform a traffic stop with this guy and he tried to
escape and run away, escaping run away. That's redundant, duck, thank
you very much. So what causes this anger that people say, Oh,
it's hot, people get angry and it's hot. No, normal people,
same people, people who care about others when they get hot there they go
have a glass of water. They don't get into a car and drive into
a bunch of people. Right. So, anyway, the most severely hurt
person, young lady, had an ankle fresh So it wasn't like a lot
of people were seriously hurt. It's just the idea of it, and then
the headlines that come from it, and the people wonder, oh, wow,
how does that happen? How things like that happen? So okay in
the the wow department, Let's see how many of these we can recount.
So we've had shark attacks cougar attacks. We've had dog attacks right now,
there's another bear attack and a bunch of bear attacks this year as well.
Here's again in Pennsylvania recovering after he was bitten in the head. Bear attacks
him in his own garage. Bright not like just out on a walk or
anything, or sometimes come into the backyard or whatever in his garage. Talk
about being trapped and think about where you are safe. You'd like to think
you're a saving secure in your own home. But anyway, he was grabbing
at his head. You see some of the video of him getting pummeled,
and then I don't know where did the video come from? How did who
saw him? Is that his wife? Somebody must have seen what was going
on because it's there's a video of it. Well, and people have home
security cameras. The door what is it those door bowls that have yeah,
yep. The James Webb Space telescope. This is fabulous capturing the most detailed
image of the Ring Nebula, which is if you've been following NASA following our
conversation, it's the aftermath of a star that has collapsed. Sometimes most of
the time, in fact, these things go into a black hole but according
to these, to these pictures, this thing has collapsed into a really small
white planet, a dwarf planet. So if you're planning a trip into outer
space with William Shatner or whomever, you'll be happy to know that this star
is twenty two hundred light years away, so you can make it there.
And well, depending on how fast the technology is you go to warp speed,
it'll take here about one hundred years to get there at current at at
the market rate of travel, right, yeah, but look at just go
to the NASA website. There's also a there's an announcement of the NASA website
about AI. IBM has partnered with a firm called Ugging Face an interesting name
for a firm, right, Hugging Face, to develop a geospatial model that
will be used to build generative AI programs to predict things like crop patterns and
the weather and that sort of stuff. So that's pretty well. Is that
gonna be helpful? What do you do after I've been reading some of you
know, I'm a farmer, and I do the American Family Farmer Show on
the weekends, and we do our food, family and farm thing every day
here on this program and you know all of the hoopla about the weather.
Once the crop is planted, not much you can do about it. It's
growing or it's not, and you replanted or you don't, depends on your
cycle. I know a lot of the fields that were we planted corn and
things early this year because of weather in March warmed up, we plowed,
we planted, and then by the end of April, first of May when
it started a rain torrentially, everything got washed out, flooded out, rotted
out. So I had to replant. And it was late. So some
of the corn is just now coming in. It's three weeks late for saying
knee high by the fourth of July, or it's a bad crowd yep didn't
happen. Wow, well some of it in some places. But where you
can't. What are you going to do about the You can't plant corn in
the and the pool, so it's really affected. You're going to pay more.
We hear this all the time. You're going to pay more for bread
and the staples. Cost of beef has gone way up because there isn't as
much of it, frankly, and so here we go again. So um
here this is something else. I think I haven't had one of these yet
this year. To talk about a beaver attack, well, beavers and otters,
they're pretty much the same thing. To see this, This is three
women injured, one had to be airlifted to a hospital after a beaver slash
otter attacked to them while they were floating down a river on an inner tube
or three they all had. They were all on their own inner tubes.
So it's a hot day. Let's take a ride down the river, right,
and these friends floating three miles up from the Sappington Bridge in Montana,
which is south of Helena. And so this I don't remember ever a story
about. I'm sure it's happened. I remember story about beavers attacking people.
Usually they mind their own business. They don't bother. Yeah, And isn't
it would betters. Isn't it just their tail? Like you can you can
tell the difference between them by their tail. Yeah, right, yeah,
they are otherwise they do similar. Right. So they say that they saw
these otters and they floated down the river. Uh, but usually they've seen
him before they've gone down this river, and so they weren't bothered by it.
And then one of them then swam toward them and started to gnaw at
their tube and not at their leg being huh right. I wonder if I
had babies nearby, yeah, protecting them probably. Yeah, that's probably exactly
what happened. That's usually what happens. So the interesting thing is that one
of then his cell phone. Who carries his cell phone with you when you're
riding down on a tube in a river? Modern times, ain't they great?
It's time for us to dig in use some celebrity news as social media
loves to focus in on some of these things. Who don't we focus on?
Yesterday I was talking about how much I liked the music. It was
a leapo Sadie and do a leapo right. I like her. Never cared
for Cardi being not my cup of tea. But a lot of people know
who she is, a lot of people want to go see her show.
A lot of people are big fans. So I think it was last week
it was a show at a club in Las Vegas where somebody tossed something at
her right, very good, Yeah, And this is one of those it
kind of goes along the lines with fans acting unruly, throwing things on stage.
This is a little bit of a different situation because earlier during this performance,
not at this exact moment, but Cardi was Cardi B was really hot,
and she encouraged fans to throw water at her. And then that moment
had passed and somebody else threw an unidentified liquid but it hit her and her
face and then like hair and stuff, and she reacted and through the microphone.
Well, the person that got hit by the microphone was actually standing next
to the person that threw the liquid, not the person who threw the liquid.
So that woman reported it the incident to authorities. However, authorities said
that they're not going to no arrest, no citations, nothing has really been
issued. But this microphone that was thrown into the crowd is go is up
for auction. It's up for auction through Tuesday, and proceeds will go to
two different charities. And this comes from this comes from the sound people who
the company who provided the audio support for the show. So a lot of
people his name, the head guy is Scott Fisher, and a lot of
people were telling him you should auction it off. I'm sure you get a
lot of money. This is the microphone Cardidi through it throughout of an audience
member whatever, and he finally was like, you know what, I will
and one percent of proceeds, I'll donate it to two different organizations, and
one is the Wounded Warrior Project that helps veterans and service members and the other
one is Friendship Circle in Las Vegas for special needs. And as at this
moment, the bid is ninety nine thousand dollars for a microphone. Okay,
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diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. The folks at Anheiser
Busch have the companies called inbv We all know the corns he The earning expectations
went down ten percent because of Dylan mulvaney or so, that's what they say.
And this is they've been trying to turn things around, but the boycott
may not be ending or at least the problems. All they can think of
is being at Fenway Park. Get your eyes kobia here, Get your eyes
kobia. And they have those buckets with bud light. Heyst kobia here,
But bud Light not having a good time with this no most so offensive of
exactly. A trans woman posting to social media a sponsored post about bud Light.
Yeah, you're thinking about you know, most of the time you need
to do a boycott. Okay, boycott today, go back to buying the
step Tomorrow they come and they go. But this one really has a lot
more staying power. And you know, you wonder, Okay, what's the
story? Is it going on and on and on? And if it does,
why what is that? You just asked the right question. Anyway,
Firstly, I find it more offensive that the Jimmy John's CEO is a trophy
hunter. How do you mean? I don't know that story. There's been
There's been some different boycotts, never to this caliber, for for the sandwich
trup Jimmy John's, because the CEO is a trophy hunter. Okay, yeah,
right, yeah, I remember that. Yes, yeah, goes out
shooting elephants more outrageous. Yeah, So bud Light no longer is at the
top spot in the US beer market. The uh do you what? I
find very amusing about this. You have to look at stuff, you got
to you gotta have some fun with these things. There's a there's a specialist
at the University of Toledo, a professor of beverage studies. They have a
food degree at the University of Toledo, and one of the professor, guy
named Neo Reid is the professor of of beverages. Okay, what do you
do for a living, I'm a professor in the University of Toledo. And
what's especially, sir, beverages? Okay, well, listen, um.
He says that Anheuser Busch has law out to Mulson Cores. I don't know
that much about I know Cores beers and Mulson Light. Right, aren't those
Colorado beers more West Coast beer? Yeah, Cores definitely, all right.
So a lot of people have left bud Light say they're going to stick with
Cores Light. So I've never had any I don't drink beer. I never
had a sip of it. Well, that's not true. I did have
one day as a Fourth of July in nineteen ninety when I went on the
air with the Chief of Police and Cincinnati and drank through quarters of a bottle.
He wanted to see how long it would take me to get silly,
and as a demonstration of how easy it is to lose your focus of concentration
as you're driving if you have just one beer. Anyway, so I forgot
what I drank. I drank some local Cincinnati beer, and but the point
here is that people say that cores light and bud light are about the same.
So I don't know. I can't say that typically are are they?
Yeah, they're there's nothing too different. But people need to stop sleeping on
PBR. That's a good one. Say what I said, people need to
stop sleeping on PBR. As far as beers go, it's really good.
Oh, perhaps blue Ribbon. Yeah, the beer that made Milwaukee famous.
I remember the edge go back to when I was a pop on radio in
the sixties. We used to put these. Back then, we didn't have
a taper, and then we had these big platters that look like a record.
You put them on the turntable and play them. Paapst the Blue Blue
Ribbon beer, I remember correctly. And then there was another. What was
the beer that made Milwaukee famous? It's one of them. There used to
be tons of these beers, and then they all got bought up by three
or four companies. And now the whole Michelobe and right to the Bush Light
all that stuff. And so I'm just trying to remember in my mind.
Some regional beer is that people, if you live in certain states, that
might be one of your favorite ones. That's the one you know really well?
Well, but what about all of these local breweries? What about all
of these local places that when you get right down to brass tacks, and
there are a lot of local brewhouses. We have two or three of them
here in Framingham. In fact, oh for sure. A lot of restaurants
have their their own brewing factories right attached to the restaurant. They have their
only their own beer on the menu. So are they better or worse?
What? Why would people want to go out of their wave just to get
a local beer? What's there? What is there about? I don't think
you necessarily are going out of your way to get it, especially if it's
like a restaurant you like and you like their food. M like their food,
you like the beer? All right, you'll be happy to know that.
I'm I tell the story in the air. I just is a chick
walking around. I have so many The farm life, especially because it's been
so wet, has been horrible. The tick season has been terrible, and
there hasn't been a day go by that I didn't have a tick somewhere on
my body. It took a shower, and you know, usually they go
away. Sometimes they hold on so I just put my headsets on and I
felt this little thing around my ear, and so I'm reach up and pull
it off as a damn tick. So maybe I should take a picture.
I do a video. I fout to get rid of a tick. Yeah,
okay, not a good day for the tick, but good day for
me. I got rid of them. Okay, let's see here, and
I want the ticks walking beside me. Here's a wonderful story about a boy
whose father died in the line of duty. So this youngster, these folks
live in Kentucky, welcomed on his first day of school by a police contingent
showing their support for the son of the officer who was killed in the line
of duty. Members in the Louisville Police Department lined up to surprise young Riley
Cotton Gin as he made his way into elementary school for the first time.
He had a great support system in place, and the police chief said,
we hope he has a great day. That interesting. So the father was
hit by a car while on duty, and the mother said she was touched
so much by this love, and think of the impact will have He's old
enough. Zachary as as the father of the son and O'riley's the son of
Zachary's the father. So imagine the lasting impact this will have on him and
his life. And the children who went to school with him for the first
time that day, they'll remember it. How could you not remember that sort
of a greeting And the teacher said that this youngster went into class he had
the biggest smile on his face. Yeah, yeah, what a special moment.
And I mean, I don't think many of us can remember our first
stay at kindergarten, But like you said, Doug, this is one of
those core memories that will last on. And how many of these these police
officers who knew his father, Zachary and are going to really check up on
Riley for wrestling his life? They are, Yeah, they're now truly integrated
into this family, checking to watch over our him. Yeah, right,
exactly, neat all. Right. Now, on the other end of the
scale, there are three bodies that have been found mummified in a Colorado campsite.
The car owner's office identifying these three folks as a let's see here,
a couple of women and a young fourteen year old son who were out on
a camping trip. They went way off the grid if you will. The
corner said he believed that malnutrition and exposure to the elements. The reason I
tell you this story because there are a lot of people a go this.
These people have been missing since like what last winter. They yeah, they
chose they weren't just camping. They chose to live off the grid, and
they were not equipped to do so. And I guess a lot of their
friends and family members had said, please don't do this. Do you have
no common sense? And you know, I know we all like to be
or not maybe all of us, but many people like to try to take
a camping trip and go out and live on the sort of on the hoof
for a while. But this is this is silliness, especially at that time
of year. Yeah, just so sick of society and and you just you
you want to be self sustainable, go live off the grid and all of
that, but it's one of those things that it's it's easier said than done.
Living off the grid is no joke. You need to be very well
equipped, have the right tools, have the know how to do certain things.
It's not just you know what, I'm going to pack up my bad.
It's not you're just was a backpacking across Europe. It's not like you're
doing anything like that, like you're living off the grid. You need to
be prop haired. Well, it's pretty sad actually, the circumstances it exists.
Yes, yep, A lot of attention this week to plastic. Can't
remember. I think I mentioned three or four times every time I opened up
a carton of something, or like there's some fruits, some kiwis that I
opened yesterday, and I looked at that packaging and and then you look in
your in your recyclable bin, and you see all the plastic that's in there.
And granted it has allowed a lot of food giants to become more more
prolific, if you will. Coca Cola generates three million tons of plastic a
year, Pepsicola two point three billion tons of plastic for bottles and packaging.
McDonald's generates the weight of one hundred Eiffel Towers in terms of the packaging that
you get in a Happy meal or whatever that you're buying there. But think
back to when I can remember when plastic wasn't used. It took over after
became cheap and easy to get, and it was stronger than some of the
stuff that used to be used. It was never used during World War Two
and barely used in the fifties. It wasn't until late in the sixties the
emergence of the plastic industry and they hired big lobbyists to fight laws designed to
safeguard people and planet from the toxicity. So here is a key example again
of the legal system, our legislative system, being influenced negatively by all the
campaign contributions in the lobbying. Wow, think about that. How much plastic
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Our autoexpert dot Com is his website. You may solicit his input by going
there and seeing what it is that's making headlines this week. I'll tell you
the one thing involving cars that made me take notice was the story of a
southern California family couldn't complete a jeep. They had an old jeep they were
trying to restore it, and the father who was working on it died.
So some of the friends of this young boy, the son of the guy
who died in high school, stepped up. They brought the car into the
shop. You know they have they're still doing, at least to my part
of the world. Obviously out in California as well. They have vocational schools.
So they brought this nineteen sixty nine jeep commando into the shop and they
restored it and they gave it back. This is think about this. Actually,
Um, this fellow um was a was a teacher in the in the
school, and so they he'd been working on this and he died. So
they brought it into the school and they redid the car. You should see
it. It really is amazing. And they did it in the name of
the father and the teacher. Very sweet, very nice. It's and I've
forgotten even what a jeep commando was, right, it's like a jeepster what
they used to call him jeeps. Yeah, they have the long back end,
so sort of yeah, it's it's very cool angled back ends. Yeah.
Right, all right, let's fast or to twenty twenty three, where
we are and the talk about getting rid of gas engines and electric cars and
electric and electric that. Well, I guess the good news would be that
Ford and GM have said, don't worry about the VAT engine. We're going
to keep them. What motivated them to do that seems kind of contrary to
all the rest is stuff they're doing with these foolish electric cars, Nick,
Yeah, I mean it depends where you live, right, So one in
four Californians bought an electric car last year, which is extremely high numbers.
But for California it works really well. I mean, electricity is expensive,
gases, I mean, gas is expensive. Electricity is plentiful, sunshine is
plentiful. So for them it makes a lot of sense. But people in
the Midwest, where the core of America lives, those people don't have access
to electric cars, and they also and even if they did, they wouldn't
buy them. Yeah yeah, And they was a great for transportation, but
for people who use trucks to haul staff and for their daily it just doesn't
work. So I think what Ford and General Motives have done is recognize the
fact that we need different horses for different courses. Some people are absolutely going
to live and die by the V eight, and they've said no plan for
the end of production, especially Ford. They just introduced the new Mustang which
has that new Coyote fourth generation V eight engine in it, and that's a
brand new be Inn in So they're designing these new engines surf for cars that
are coming out right now, and I never see the day that pickup trucks
are going to be without some kind of V eight engine because they are necessary
for a lot of things like hauling and moving. So I think what they're
doing is saying, hey, America, we're still there for you, all
right. So that's FOURD in GM. What about Chrystler, what are they
doing? Well? The difficulty with them is that they have very few V
eight vehicles. They had them in some of their Charges and Challenge They had
all the hot cars of the hemmies and stuff, and they're going to stop
making them. Who they had made that decision, Well, I think they
made the decision because they had limited on factory space and so they only sell
about eighty thousand of those Charges and Challenges every year, whereas they sell a
lot more trucks. They're going to keep them for the trucks pretty surely.
But even though they've said they're going to get rid of them, they were
supposed to do that two years ago, they haven't disappeared. So I think
I'm not sure whether it's just a fake ceiling and the truth is that they're
going to keep doing it because guess what, Americans keep buying them. So
as they keep buying them, keep making them. I saw an article.
I used to be in the school but even the bus business for eleven or
twelve years a sort of a family thing, and I ran a lot of
school buses and they were pretty conventional, you know, chassis like a bit
bread truck only longer, or a box on it too, all kids around.
Now they're becoming fancier and there's a company that has started to make They
have an order for a thousand electric school buses. Look, they've kind of
fancied up the way the bodies look, and they're gonna you know, I
can see and because they don't normally get to do two hundred miles a day.
But again, why the big push? Now? Who's behind that is
the question? I think? Ye, all right, that's a difficult one
because the school bus is one thing that doesn't really need reinventing. It seems
to have worked for about what sixty years, quite find the way it did
right since the right after World War Two is a matter of fact. The
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